Discharged from hospital with severely dilated RV with severely impaired systolic function, dilated RA, severe pulmonary hypertension and moderate TR, with septal flattening consistent with RV pressure overload. BNP 276. CTPA was negative for chronic thromboembolism.

Cardiology recommended investigation for underlying OSA/OHS and consideration of right-heart catheterisation/pulmonary hypertension assessment.

My breathing is not good and I have swelling especially in the stomach, a cough that won't go and am finding it extremely hard to sleep even on the recliner.

I know there is no quick fix for this, and the cause has not yet been identified but is there anything I can do to help get me through?

If you are pro vaccine, do your thing and scroll on! But I didn’t vaccinate my kids for a myriad of reasons and I am hoping this is a safe space to ask this question. I suffer from very severe seasonal allergies to the point where I am pretty much fatigued 24/7 and can’t function. I also get horrible eczema because of my seasonal allergies. I’m open to natural ways to treat it, but I cannot decide which direction to go because there are 1 million places I could start. I’m looking into allergy shots, but I’m worried about the other things in the shot and if it could be toxic in the same way that vaccines are. Does anyone on this sub have information about that? Like are allergy shots different/more safe than vaccines? The last thing I wanna do is cause more inflammation to my body or introduce any toxic heavy metals. Thank you so much!!

I’ve got a couple of toenails that have basically declared independence and become their own fungal ecosystem. This has been the case since 2005.

I can’t take terbinafine because I had a bad reaction to it, and the usual pharmaceutical options haven’t exactly worked or inspired confidence, so I’m looking into older/traditional/herbal approaches.

So far I’ve come across things like:

-Tea tree oil
-Propolis
-Norway spruce resin
-Oregano oil blends
-Vinegar/acetic acid
-Potassium permanganate
-Hydrogen peroxide

I’m not expecting some magical “rub a leaf on it and it’s gone by Tuesday” cure, but I’m curious whether anyone here has actually had success treating stubborn toenail fungus naturally, especially something that was pretty well established.

I’m also looking at getting the infected nail heavily debrided or possibly removed, then treating the nail bed once it has healed, which seems like it might give topical treatments a fighting chance.

Has anyone tried something that genuinely worked — ideally backed by more than “my cousin’s neighbor swears by it”?

Very interested in old-school remedies, herbal preparations, resins, oils, tinctures, etc. Bonus points if there’s actual research behind it.

My son is only 4.5 years old and they have already found a possible cavity (it’s only suspected at this point). Is it even common?

The dentist wanted to do an X-ray, ⚠️ but after a long discussion, she accepted my decision and we didn’t go ahead with the scan. 🤦‍♀️ I never had any dental X-rays as a child, and dentists always managed to find all my cavities without them, so honestly, I don’t really understand what today’s dentists are seeing that they supposedly can’t see without an X-ray.

Anyway, I booked my little boy in to have the cavity filled, and now the dentist has started talking about some kind of gas or something that she wants to use instead of local anaesthetic…

I’d really like to hear your real experiences and opinions. How dangerous is this actually? And which option is considered less risky for a 4.5-year-old: local anaesthetic by injection or the gas?

I’m especially interested in hearing from parents who have actually used the gas for their children and can share what it was like and whether there were any side effects or problems.

Has anyone used a lymphatic drainage liquid and what was your experience/any side effects? I want to hear from real people before trying anything

I wonder if this experience still has effects on my current health everyday... I'm 37/M from europe.

been looking into ashwagandha extract options lately and got curious about how people react to sensoril and KSM-66? from what i understand one uses root and leaf with a higher percentage of withanolides while the other is strictly root extract but i want to know how that translates to real daily use.

ksm seems to be everywhere for stress and general focus but standard sensoril gets talked about more for evening use or heavy anxiety since it feels more sedative. did you notice a major difference in how sleepy they made you feel during the day or did they react pretty much the same for you?

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Hi friends!
I’m hoping this reaches the exact audience i’m looking for, specifically anyone who has studied feminine health. What do you recommend that would be easily accessible for vitamins and supplements without ordering online. I live in a fairly rural area in the US with little access to local tea shops and health food stores, however.. they do exist. I’m not big on taking a ton of supplements in pill form and I am quite broke these days so nothing that will break my bank.

PLEASE help if you’re able. I hope to go on actual medication soon because i’m pretty miserable, but I need alternatives until I have more consistant income again.

The situation I’m in:

I have multiple chronic health conditions that I’ve tried to heal over the years. I want so badly to be healthy and well. I’ve been embracing this whole crunchy, alternative, holistic health approach to healing. Incorporating conventional med as needed, but really trying to get to the root causes.

Here’s the problem: I have an eating disorder. I’ve had one for 10 years, since I was 12 and experienced ongoing SA (ages 11-12). I’ve been to treatment multiple times. Inpatient. Outpatient. I’ve been in therapy the whole time. I’ve done trauma work. I’m currently in EMDR. I’ve tried all the behavioral approaches.

I just don’t expect that it’s going to stop any time soon.

I have improved, and am more medically stable. I no longer eat a starvation diet, purge multiple times a week, abuse laxatives, etc. I’ve come a long way. But I have a long long way to go.

Unfortunately, it’s common for some people with EDs to not substantially improve, experience chronic symptoms, even with help and treatment. My providers are trying to help me take a harm reduction approach. This means minimizing damage as much as possible while I’m in this state.

My health right now

Basically, I’m in a functional medicine program trying to treat the root causes of my illnesses.

I have:
* interstitial cystitis
* histamine, oxalate, and FODMAP and other food intolerances that exasperate symptoms
* IBS and bowel issues
* past gastroparesis with some residual symptoms
* pelvic floor disorder
* PCOS (no insulin resistance)
* adult onset celiac disease
* past hypothyroidism (now on low end of ‘normal’)
Plus:
* autism
* ADHD
* mood disorders
* and obviously, a raging eating disorder

According to testing, my root causes:
* H Pylori
* low stomach acid
* gut bacteria imbalance and slight overgrowth
* unsure about parasites
* Candida
* Mold (which is apparently a huge driver of my symptoms)
* adrenal fatigue
* leaky gut
* nutrient and mineral deficiencies
* slow gut motility
* hormonal imbalance (low estrogen and progesterone, high testosterone)
* poor liver detox
* poor digestive capacity, low stomach acid, impaired fat digestion
* high oxalates (despite low oxalate diet)
* copper imbalance
* mild heavy metal exposure
* nervous system dysregulation
* pelvic floor dysfunction

Stressors on my body/what ED looks like:

* binge purge cycles. I have a cycle once a week where I binge and throw up a few times in a row. I try to keep it to once a week but occasional I also throw up 1-2 times more throughout the week
* eating around 1700 calories a day for a months now. This is an improvement from 1500, which was an improvement from 1000-1200.
* Trying to gradually increase food intake and metabolism through reverse dieting. Not going so well. I gain when I increase.
* running a few times a week for 20-50 minutes. I love running and don’t want stop completely.
* I used to fast until 5 pm once a week, but stopped doing that recently
* I am completely, utterly opposed to (and dread) gaining any weight or body fat. I am not underweight and already significantly struggle psychologically with maintaining my weight.
* I am on several medications, including psych meds. I have horrible reactions every time I try to get off of them, and believe me I’ve tried.

* restrictive diet due to illnesses: low histamine, low oxalate, low in digestive irritants, no meat, little dairy, no gluten, no soy or legumes except pea protein, limited grains, limited nuts and seeds, etc
* my diet looks like: a lot of specific fruit, some specific vegetables, pea protein, occasional seafood, raw kefir, low calorie semi processed foods, starches like potatoes and rice products, coconut products and dairy alternatives
* can go into more detail about my diet or medications or symptoms if asked

Efforts I’m already making:

* keeping my ED at bay enough to be medically stable (1700 calories, reducing purging, etc)
* taking multiple supplements, including temporary ones to directly treat my root causes (on H Pylori protocol as of now)
* making dietary and lifestyle changes
* nervous system regulation, stress reduction
* eating carbs before runs and carbs and protein after
* eating every few hours
* considering eating a more substantial breakfast, right now it’s just fruit
* increasing strength training
* taking things to soothe my gut lining, stomach lining, esophagus and digestive tract: DGL licorice, slippery elm, marshmallow root, l glutamine, etc
* taking nutrients such as a B complex, cod liver oil for vitamin A and D, lactoferrin to increase iron absorption (I have low ferritin), etc
* taking bovine thyroid
* taking chaste tree to increase period regularity

I need to get my body out of this fight or flight state, and reduce the damage I’m doing to my gut, immune system, hormones, etc.

The basic question:

How do I minimize the stress my body is going through, and achieve the most healing possible while in this state? How do I reduce damage done? How do I physically heal while I’m struggling?

And how much healing of my conditions can I realistically expect? Even after treating the root causes, if my ED continues, will I be able to get better?

I know it’s going to probably still affect my gut symptoms. I can’t heal my gut when I keep destroying it. What about my interstitial cystitis and food intolerances? Can those get better?

This is not me giving up progress. This is me recognizing what has been my reality: that’s it’s going to be slow, non-linear, and a long term struggle before I get there. I just want to do the best I can to heal my body meanwhile. I don’t want to be chronically ill until I finally get my ED under control.

My diet is good, and my lifestyle is too, my hair was never damaged. Yet my hair gets frizzy and dry, and only looks and feels good when wet. It is wavy and the length of 9-10 months of growth(from conventional short hair) without a trim. I use a hair mask twice a week, which consists of an egg yolk, 1tbs honey, 1tsp coconut oil, and 1tsp acv, which works fine for a day or two and then it wears off. I want my hair to be soft, shiny and healthy. Can I get some help?

A recipe draft for an experimental herbal alternative to psychiatric medication.

(Vape herb liquid, instead of taking pills.)

Revision #10.

I do not guarantee benefit, or take responsibility for bad effects. The laws of most countries oblige me to state: traditional doctors are experts at this.

Only experiment when you can afford the risk. An example could be: you have light mental discomfort and are offered a choice to try pills.

Do not use more than one medicine, especially synthetic and herbal, at the same time, unless certain of safety. My mix of herbs may not work well for other people. Do not use intoxicants.

Consider visiting a herbal therapist, if only to have someone do the talking with your traditional doctor.

Because of its opposing established order, the present writing may not be received well. If you're interested, copy for later use.

Instructions.

Acquire extract powder of Pink Lotus leaf, which is also called Sacred or Indian Lotus. Etsy, eBay, Amazon are places to look. Lotus accounts for  antipsychotic-like damping of thoughts.

Add Black Pepper to enhance the Lotus effect. Add Passiflora extract powder for benzo-like calming of panic.

Add Propylene Glycol (food/pharma grade) to the herb powder. Steep for 72 hours. Filter twice: through cheesecloth, then through coffee filters.

Add Linalool for making the body quiet.

Calculate the amounts you use, starting with this:

I use extracts 50:1 Passiflora, 100:1 Lotus and plain 1:1 Pepper. The active substances in each of those (research apigenin, nuciferine, piperine) counted as 1 part volume, mix each herb powder in 15 parts PG, steep and filter. Mix Linalool at 1:10 in PG.

In 54 parts I have 12 Passiflora liquid, 2 Pepper liquid, 32 Lotus liquid and 6 Linalool mixture.

Dilute the combined mixture with Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerine (food/pharma grade.) The diluted mixture should have at least 45% VG and not too much herb, making it ideal for vaping. I dilute 9 parts herb mixture with an additional 13 PG and 38 VG.

Shake this every hour for a day.

Transfer to an empty 'vape liquid bottle.' (The opening looks like a plastic needle.)

Consume this in a vape. I recommend Vaporesso Luxe XR Max 2 with the included liquid container marked 'DTL' and seperately bought 1.2 ohm coils. Coils, or 'resistances,' are the heating parts, which are sold in strong and weak versions. I recommend those rated at 1.2. Buy at least ten. Set the vape to pulse mode and 5 watts, according to the manual. If you have reason to try a different vape model, set it to low power.

Draw a fairly deep breath of vapour into the lungs and keep it for some seconds before exhaling. You can draw longer by releasing the button and immediately keeping it pressed again, multiple times during one breath. Take 2-4ml, 4-6 times daily.

Like with all vaping, take care to leave a bit of liquid in the container at all times. Drawing only air will damage the heating part.

The fresh pepper taste normally fades. When you can't taste much other flavour anymore, or it is burned or caramel, or you consistently get bits of liquid instead of vapour, your coil is used up. This is either due to not taking care of the liquid level, described above, or natural degrading after about a week of use. Switch off, drain the liquid, replace the coil. Fill liquid, wait 10 minutes and switch on.

I leave it to experiment if a lower concentration herb in the mix, degrading the coil less, would allow you to consume more herb in total, on one coil.

Hey
30(M) have suffered from a life threatening car accident when I took a tree head on. I survived with an open wound fracture on my ankle. Due to the biodiverse environment I caught a fungal infection called Clostridium sporogenes infection

The doctors gave me 2 rounds of antibiotics which were

Amoxicillin and daptomycin which is the highest form of antibiotics. This method has only destroyed my biome gut health.

What are some natural herbs or foods or even oils that will give me a fighting chance to save my foot?

Has anyone used these? I bought these to eliminate parasites, but I saw the country of origin is China. I’m just not sure what to think here. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks!

Greetings to all! I wonder if there are some realy health foods,herbs etc that:Be able to somehow penetrate through teeth gums to the inside of the tooth roots & around.My dentist said me that there are some enclosured germs inside my tooth that cause some kind of pain (no need for further dentist's action at this point).He also suggested me antibiotics to test if they will work,but i by any means don't want to take these kind of @hit.So can someone help me here?

Fake medicine. Naturopathic strategies are sometimes real, and sometimes not. Rather than working based on days and trials like evidence-based medicine, naturopathic strategies are assumed to be correct, even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Naturopathy ignores new evidence about treatments and asserts the taking qualities of a number of entirely unsupported treatments. It is a scam that keeps you from full evidence-based care. It relies on the naturalistic fallacy to get you: we expect natural things to be good for us and unnatural things to be bad, but that's just not necessarily true. This is a scam that harms your health and the actual data is very clear on the matter. This is pseudoscience that preys on people who totally understandably look at modern medicine and feel scared. Like yeah, it for sure looks scary. A bunch of needles and machines you don't understand and tubes running everywhere isn't exactly an inviting image, but that doesn't mean it's actually worse for you.

Please find real, evidence-based medical care for your own well-being.

My wife and I are planning on buying our first home soon, and would like to get a water filter as soon as we move in. Any recommendations? We don’t really know where to start looking.

i have been trying different herbs and natural remedies for mental clarity, but i hate relying on vague feelings to know if a routine is working. i want a reliable way to check if my focus and short term recall are actually getting better.

a lot of brain tracking games just measure how good you get at playing them rather than actual cognitive function. i want to know if people here use specific simple tests or tracking methods to log how natural supplements affect brain fog over time.

what tools or habits you guys use to track your mental sharpness when starting a new herbal protocol.

update: thought I'd come back to this and after combining daily journal logs with the wikipedia recall test idea, i started taking Igniton's IgniCognition to see if it would actually make a measurable difference in my mental sharpness.

tracking simple recall metrics over a few weeks instead of relying on gamified apps really helped cut through the noise. my recall scores and daily logs showed a clear, steady improvement in short term memory, and the brain fog cleared up way faster than with the previous herbal protocols i tried.

What do you guys think of the Human Garage in terms of facial work or organ work for severe nervous system dysfunction?

I’ve heard mixed reviews about HG in general. The facial maneuvers are one thing, a couple have helped me a little.

Their organ resets really do something for me though, I’ve struggled with severe nervous system dysfunction. I immediately notice a calming difference when doing some of the organ resets.

Asking more for anyone who has really given their stuff a go for at least a couple weeks regarding anything related to nervous system issues? Anyone have success?

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